I’ve just designed a 6’2" thruster I’m hoping to build a hollow wooden board and take down to central america. Being that I’m a novice shaper and am making all my design decisions on experience surfing only a handful of boards regularly and the information to be found on the internet, I was wondering if you could take a look at my .brd file and critique it? I want to have a dialed board while Im down there and the best way i can think of ensuring that is having a solid design for my templates before I launch the build. Any way if you have few minutes and feel like helping me out it’d be much appreciated, I also understand if you can’t as well, we’re all busy people. Let me know and I will email you the file, if you have trouble downloading.
Thanks,
Sam
P.S. I’m 5’10" 153lbs, and am hoping to surf this board in chest high to overhead waves.
Not that I’d know - But… File???
can you post a picture (like a jpeg)?
here is a pdf with some basic info on the shape. I’m planning on a thruster set up but am tempted to chuck it up as a quad…
That's a pretty straightforward hpsb shape, the devil is in the details on those. Nuances of rail foil and shape are are critical, how the changing deck roll influences these things only becomes apparent with experience. It needs some concave that I don't see in the file. You could lose 1/4'' or so of nose flip. Getting the tips thinned out in hollow wood construction will be a challenge. Likely to be solid wood construction in those areas.
more tail rocker than I use unless it is for surfing in the pocket and in great hollow waves, maybe 2 1/8" and 5" would be a more drivey curve but still plenty of curve for turning, but like I said, you may be surfing tight in the pocket.....
right on guys, keep the info coming!
Mike, i have single concave starting at little before 4’. which hits 1/8" at 4’1.5" from the tail, 1/8" concave at 2’9" from the tail, which runs until about 1’5" from the tail where it hits 1/16th deep which holds until about 4 inches off the tail where im back to flat. Sound okay? If you have aku shaper i can send you the file direct. and yea Im planning on nose and tail blocks for sure.
Pridmore, I will kick down the rocker a bit as One can never be to sure on the waves to be encountered… Having only built low rocker twinzers, the bottom contours and rocker measurements are the areas of shaping i am least confident about.
Thanks for the input fellas, any more advice is highly appreciated!
-Sam
Ok I'll lay into you, You asked for it....Mike and Pridemore are being kind.
Why are you making a HWS short board that you think is going to be high performance? It will be too heavy.
maybe make it from foam and glass ?? or one of many options to create a high perf board of good weight and flex...... or possibly do a less high-perf design in hollow wood ? but it is your board, make what you want, just the construction doesnt lend itself to high perf that the shape you have planned.....
What can i say? I’m just feeling the HWS.
I love the follow through that the extra weight adds to my surfing. HP wood is something new for me. I’ve ridden woodies almost exclusively over the past two years, but havent tried the HP shapes in wood yet. I was able to toss my 5’10" twinzer around well enuff, and who knows fellaz the thing might not work out at all, if the HP+wood combo proves totally bunk…well shoots dunno, but gotta try it first!
But if you guys have thoughts on how any design elements may help balance out the weight factor…?
all ears.
Sure is going to be a hard lesson when you are in central america with no surfshop to buy a new board, and your stuck with a 15 lb 6ft board....but then maybe I missed something over the past years?.
High performance and HWS can't be used in the same sentence. They just weigh too much.
Keep us posted on how it works out. take lot's of pictures of the build & trip! Seriously.
The process and trip will be well recirded for sure. Gotta ask Resin Head, have you ridden HWS before?
All the Aku files in the world won't matter a hill of beans if you can't look at a blank or a pile of sticks and extract a sculpture from the materials. Even then if you don't set the fins correctly it might not work anyway. It will matter even less if the rider can't make it perform. Just sayin.